As New Zealanders grapple with high interest rates, stubborn inflation and general economic downturn, job losses have begun and more Kiwis than ever are leaving for good.
Bad in NZ or hyperbole ?
Or Australia and the recent church stabbings. NZ and the Christchurch thing, plenty of counties have shit banned beside China.
IPS report says replacement fuels well off track to replace kerosene within timeframe needed to avert climate disaster
In today's edition of no shit sherlock. So, solutions ? Stop flying... No? okay then, societal collapse it is then.
I can see you haven't met many christians if you think this is hypocritical behavior.
Ghandi ? I like your Christ, you Christians are so unlike him.
I'll have to shit like a barbarian for that time.
I try and pre poop for this reason, if going to town and get caught out etc
Smearng shit around your asshole with paper might have appealed to 8yr old me but no longer is it the mischievous fun it was in the long ago.
It was also bemusing to see the great TP shortages of the Covid era and snicker
Tha makes no sense unliss there was also a hetero tag for homosexuals to use.
As another user mentioned, I'd suspect because gay is still a death scentence and/or a criminal charge in some places, those would insist anything gay must me filtered ?
Most of the functionality is present but many important bits are still being developed.
Most of the functionality is present but many important bits are still being developed.
My Nokia XR20 has all three (and NFC), that and it being a "tough phone" were the attraction at the time, as it double times as the GPS on my bicycle and track logging hikes etc
I am not sure if the newer XR21 kept them?.
Yeah, I had that with Sony, Apple, Microsoft, Google, Samsung.
A couple years ago, I decided not to cut my nose off to spite my face and evaluate the products and hope some shenanigans root kit doesn't happen after i've purchased it
I think im paraphrasing the author Iain Banks here, I feel like a piece of sweet corn in a turd, technically I'm intact but I'm still surrounded by shit.
On the plus side it pushed me to Linux as my desktop OS.
Yes, imagine, its controlled by Google..and Apple, thay woukd be a backward step
Fuck RCS, just install Signal
Why ? I am sure there are lots of good architects that can't lay a row of bricks for shit and won't take feedback from builders and tradespeople either.
Maybe an excellent developer will read it, agree and have a go ? Or they'll collaborate with somone.
Yes I'm on it, and don't post much, I guess to dip my toe to check it out but while I take photos for myself I don't look at the photos of others. I was never on IG at all so ...
Brought back memories of this article, well worth a read
https://theintercept.com/2023/10/29/william-nordhaus-climate-economics/
Ignorance of systems has its way of plowing forward, juggernaut-like. Nordhaus has opined that agriculture is “the part of the economy that is sensitive to climate change,” but because it accounts for just 3 percent of national output, climate disruption of food production cannot produce a “very large effect on the U.S. economy.” It is unfortunate for his calculations that agriculture is the foundation on which the other 97 percent of GDP depends. Without food — strange that one needs to reiterate this — there is no economy, no society, no civilization. Yet Nordhaus treats agriculture as indifferently fungible.
Not having outdoor lighting, seriously. I've been workibg on using less for years, trying to drill down between needs and wants.
We can't buy our way out of this using more resources, the only thing truly renewable is organic.
Less is more.
The problem is human, it's us and we're not taking anything seriously. How much more ? April was the single largest increase in monthly ppm ever recorded
The climates not the problem, we have any number of solutions. Lots of really easy stuff we're not doing, like not flying and cycling and not driving cars, not replacing meat eating pets when they pass. Alll too inconvenient ? Yes ? Well that just makes my point. We assume our entitlment can continue with a few tweaks, well, we can fool ourselves and each other but nature cannot be fooled.
Ask a behavioral expert not a climate scientiest. Can't even get people to stop flying to a Taylor Swift concert or a football match what hope ?
Fuck hope, Plan for the worst.
Butt hurt much?
Why didnt they barricade the car lane off and use that to install the bike barrier lane protectors from ? Use stop / go personell so cars can use the other lane.
They've blocked the entire cycle lane with what looks like a compressor up ahead as well (presumably to supply a pneumatic drill for the bolts)
Or here's an idea, install concrete barricades from the back of a truck with a crane that actually project cyclists from being murdered.
Just invade, they say they're neutral.
I said ok, her choice and moved into the next meme/story.
I must admit to not understanding the furore that then arose and don't know why men (am a man) were getting butt hurt. Why would I care if women prefer the company of bears in the woods.
Outgoing special rapporteur David Boyd says ‘there’s something wrong with our brains that we can’t understand how grave this is’
>Outgoing special rapporteur David Boyd says ‘there’s something wrong with our brains that we can’t understand how grave this is’
Climate scientists have told the Guardian they expect catastrophic levels of global heating. Here’s what that would mean for the planet
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/9429920
> >Dr Henri Waisman, at the IDDRI policy research institute in France, said: “Climate change is not a black or white question and every tenth of a degree matters a lot, especially when you look at the socioeconomic impacts. This means it is still useful to continue the fight.” > > and while I agree with the sentiment, we really aren't "fighting" are we, quite the opposite. Every thing we're doing is wrong, how do we know this ? CO2ppm is still increasing, fossil fuel use increased in 2023, planes are still droning overhead, cars still driving, more roads being built and winded, the Antarctic is being stripped of krill to make pet food etc
Climate scientists have told the Guardian they expect catastrophic levels of global heating. Here’s what that would mean for the planet
>Dr Henri Waisman, at the IDDRI policy research institute in France, said: “Climate change is not a black or white question and every tenth of a degree matters a lot, especially when you look at the socioeconomic impacts. This means it is still useful to continue the fight.”
and while I agree with the sentiment, we really aren't "fighting" are we, quite the opposite. Every thing we're doing is wrong, how do we know this ? CO2ppm is still increasing, fossil fuel use increased in 2023, planes are still droning overhead, cars still driving, more roads being built and winded, the Antarctic is being stripped of krill to make pet food etc
Limiting reliance on the private sector, hiring foreign experts, and improving contracting transparency could be ways to keep costs down, experts say
>Alon Levy, co-lead of the transportation and land use program at New York University’s Marron Institute, has spent years studying why some countries are able to build transport infrastructure cheaply and others aren’t.
>Though the preliminary business case of the expansion of Gold Coast light rail includes few details, Levy estimates that the project may ultimately cost as much as 10 times more than comparable European infrastructure.
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>Those include, Levy says, a lack of contracting transparency, over-engineering, politicisation, poor allocation of cost risk – and above all, contracting out to the private sector.
A father-of-two from Victoria has his world turned upside down by an immigration law repealed in 2002. When he spoke to the ABC, the Department of Immigration changed its tune.
Wtf ?
Why have we seen so many extreme floods in recent years? Climate change is supercharging thunderstorms, adding moisture and heat.
I just used to accept the 7% increase per c figure but as indicated
>This figure comes from research undertaken by the French engineer Sadi Carnot and published 200 years ago this year.
Their work has shown it's much more
>For Australia, we helped develop a comprehensive review of the latest climate science to guide preparedness for future floods. This showed the increase per degree of global warming was about 7–28% for hourly or shorter duration extreme rain, and 2–15% for daily or longer extreme rain. This is much higher than figures in the existing flood planning standards recommending a general increase of 5% per degree of warming.
and they explain why
>We now know there’s more to the story. Yes, a hotter atmosphere has the capacity to hold more moisture. But the condensation of water vapour to make rain droplets releases heat. This, in turn, can fuel stronger convection in thunderstorms, which can then dump substantially more rain.
>This means that the intensity of extreme rainfall could increase by much more than 7% per degree of warming. What we’re seeing is that thunderstorms can likely dump about double or triple that rate – around 14–21% more rain for each degree of warming
Outgoing special rapporteur David Boyd says there’s something wrong with our brains that we can’t understand how grave this is’
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/9336139
> He mentiond climate change and pollution , well worth a read IMO > > >“The future is really daunting for people in the Maldives … the climate emergency is an existential threat that overshadows all the other issues.” > > --- > > >over 40 million people have died of air pollution since I became special rapporteur in 2018, yet I just can’t get people to care.
> > >“I can’t get people to bat an eyelash. It’s like there’s something wrong with our brains that we can’t understand just how grave this situation is.” > > >“I think the right to a healthy environment is actually the foundation that we require to enjoy all other human rights. If we don’t have a living, healthy planet Earth, then all the other rights are just words on paper.” > > >If we don’t have a living, healthy planet Earth, then all the other rights are just words on paper. > > I get his bemusement, just here in Australia, 11,000 die from air pollution from cars annually, another 20,00 are hospitalised annually. The numbers are beyond horrendous and yet, on a scale of 1 to 5 fucks given, it's 0
Outgoing special rapporteur David Boyd says there’s something wrong with our brains that we can’t understand how grave this is’
He mentiond climate change and pollution , well worth a read IMO
>“The future is really daunting for people in the Maldives … the climate emergency is an existential threat that overshadows all the other issues.”
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>over 40 million people have died of air pollution since I became special rapporteur in 2018, yet I just can’t get people to care.
>“I can’t get people to bat an eyelash. It’s like there’s something wrong with our brains that we can’t understand just how grave this situation is.”
>“I think the right to a healthy environment is actually the foundation that we require to enjoy all other human rights. If we don’t have a living, healthy planet Earth, then all the other rights are just words on paper.”
>If we don’t have a living, healthy planet Earth, then all the other rights are just words on paper.
I get his bemusement, just here in Australia, 11,000 die from air pollution from cars annually, another 20,00 are hospitalised annually. The numbers are beyond horrendous and yet, on a scale of 1 to 5 fucks given, it's 0
For decades, concerns about automobile pollution have focused on what comes out of the tailpipe. Now, researchers and regulators say, we need to pay more attention to toxic emissions from tires as vehicles roll down the road.
"You've got a chemical cocktail in these tires that no one really understands and is kept highly confidential by the tire manufacturers," said Nick Molden, CEO of Emissions Analytics. "We struggle to think of another consumer product that is so prevalent in the world and used by virtually everyone, where there is so little known of what is in them."
Homo sapiens has evolved to reproduce exponentially, expand geographically, and consume all available resources. For most of humanity’s evolutionary history, such expansionist tendencies have been countered by negative feedback. However, the scientific revolution and the use of fossil fuels reduced ...
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/8929454
> >Homo sapiens has evolved to reproduce exponentially, expand geographically, and consume all available resources. For most of humanity’s evolutionary history, such expansionist tendencies have been countered by negative feedback. However, the scientific revolution and the use of fossil fuels reduced many forms of negative feedback, enabling us to realize our full potential for exponential growth. This natural capacity is being reinforced by growth-oriented neoliberal economics
Many decades aho I went child free mostly becase of this, it seems it's just getting worse.
Homo sapiens has evolved to reproduce exponentially, expand geographically, and consume all available resources. For most of humanity’s evolutionary history, such expansionist tendencies have been countered by negative feedback. However, the scientific revolution and the use of fossil fuels reduced ...
>Homo sapiens has evolved to reproduce exponentially, expand geographically, and consume all available resources. For most of humanity’s evolutionary history, such expansionist tendencies have been countered by negative feedback. However, the scientific revolution and the use of fossil fuels reduced many forms of negative feedback, enabling us to realize our full potential for exponential growth. This natural capacity is being reinforced by growth-oriented neoliberal economics
At least 350 million litres of raw sewage spilled into a river before it was detected by Gold Coast City Council, with the spill being investigated by the state government.
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/8904479
> A Queensland council is under investigation by the state government after at least 350 million litres of raw sewage spilled into a Gold Coast river.
> Wildlife Queensland Gold Coast and Hinterland branch president Sally Spain labelled the spill one of the biggest "environmental disasters this city has ever faced".
I'd think surfin' turd rather then surfing bird ? What the fuck ?
Only because some local reported it ? >
A five-hour drive from Sydney, a community garden of sorts has sprouted. But instead of sharing tomatoes or lettuce, "gardeners" harvest solar energy. And it's already a hit with people otherwise excluded from the rooftop solar boom.
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/8872514
> >The ‘solar gardeners’, who mostly live in cities hours away, are getting returns of $505, possibly higher, locked in for the next decade, depending on the electricity market > > >The returns are credited directly to their electricity bills.
The number of Australians travelling overseas has surpassed pre-pandemic levels for the first time, with some surprising countries experiencing booms in Aussie visitors.
>Australian travellers are taking to the skies in record numbers, outstripping pre-pandemic levels for the first time.
https://www.yesmagazine.org/issue/life-after-oil/2016/02/11/how-far-can-we-get-without-flying
Hour for hour, there’s no better way to warm the planet than to fly in a plane
In our time, pandemics will occur more often, spread more rapidly, and kill more people…
4 part article
>In our time, pandemics will occur more often, spread more rapidly, and kill more people
The 2,300km (1,429-mile) reef is in its fifth mass bleaching event since 2016 and aerial surveys reveal scale of damage.
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/8702279
> Yes, fly across the planet to Australia and stab the GBR in the heart with your massive emissions /s. > > Hot on the back of thia shitty tourism encouragement article > > https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-17/tourism-stats-below-pre-covid/103729066
After a year of record-breaking heat, a devastating story has been playing out in the world's oceans. Scientists working along the most breathtaking reefs show what led to climate agency NOAA calling a global bleaching event for only the fourth time in history.
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/8674599
> >This is something everyone should be worried about, and everyone should be angry about, frankly,” NOAA’s Coral Reef Watch coordinator Derek Manzello said. > > Derkek might be "shocked" to hear that most people don't care... at all. Well, not enough to change how they Vote or how they act.
